Orthacodontidae

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Orthacodontidae
Temporal range: Early Jurassic–Paleocene
Sphenodus nitidus head.jpg
Head of Archaeogracilidens macer
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Family: Orthacodontidae
Glikman, 1957
Genera

Orthacodontidae (also spelled Orthacodidae [1] ) is an extinct family of sharks. It is disputed as to whether it belongs to the modern shark order Hexanchiformes, [2] or the extinct order Synechodontiformes. [3] It contains three genera. Some other authors included it in Lamniformes. [4] More recent studies have generally favored its placement in the Hexanchiformes. [1]

Species

References

  1. 1 2 3 Villalobos-Segura, Eduardo; Amadori, Manuel; Stumpf, Sebastian; Jambura, Patrick L.; Begat, Arnaud; Lopez-Romero, Faviel A.; Schweigert, Günter; Maxwell, Erin E.; Kriwet, Jürgen (2025-12-31). "Articulated specimens provide new insights into the iconic Mesozoic shark genus Sphenodus". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 23 (1). doi: 10.1080/14772019.2025.2507014 . ISSN   1477-2019.
  2. "Sphenodus longidens | Shark-References". shark-references.com. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  3. Villalobos-Segura, Eduardo; Stumpf, Sebastian; Türtscher, Julia; Jambura, Patrick L.; Begat, Arnaud; López-Romero, Faviel A.; Fischer, Jan; Kriwet, Jürgen (March 2023). "A Synoptic Review of the Cartilaginous Fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätten of Southern Germany: Taxonomy, Diversity, and Faunal Relationships". Diversity. 15 (3): 386. doi: 10.3390/d15030386 . ISSN   1424-2818. PMC   7614348 .
  4. Rees, JAN (2010). "Neoselachian sharks from the Callovian-Oxfordian (Jurassic) of Ogrodzieniec, Zawiercie Region, southern Poland". Palaeontology. 53 (4): 887–902. Bibcode:2010Palgy..53..887R. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00967.x .